Six METALLICA Albums Made The Highest-Selling Metal Albums of 2016 List; Here's The Entire List

Metallica sell, and everybody's buying. We know that the Black Album is a monster, but sometimes we might forget, that the rest of their early catalog still sells very very well.

To my point, Metal Insider compiled a list of the top selling metal albums of the last year, and five Metallica records rank in the top six, with Metallica's debut coming in at #19. The only other band in the top five are Disturbed, with Megadeth's Dystopia ranking at (a respectable) #7. Here's the list:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (Atlantic)
113,000 sold

Shinedown, Threat to Survival (Atlantic)
110,000 sold

Pierce the Veil, Misadventures (Fearless)
105,000 sold

Metallica, Kill ’em All (Blackened Recordings)
104,000 sold

A Day To Remember, Bad Vibrations (ADTR)
102,000 sold

Korn, The Serenity of Suffering (Roadrunner)
100,000 sold

It goes to show that legacy acts are still where all the big money is. The only newer bands here are A Day To Remember, Pierce the Veil and Volbeat – all who already have a decade under their belt. Avenged Sevenfold could have likely been much higher on this list, had they gone the traditional promo route.